skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate you making an effort to visually display things, but FWIW I don't think that (or sibling) really gets to the root issue, which is less of capability then practical convenience and compatibility. Mac native Terminal perfectly well supports 256 colors (or arbitrary 16 colors with themes), which I've used, so you could absolutely make both sides look identical there. Unless someone is regularly viewing photos inside their terminal (which some do support and can actually sometimes be handy!) then it might not be immediately clear what 24-bit would bring to the table over 8-bit, regardless of editor or shell themes.

But in practice 24-bit was an easy lift for terminals under active development ages ago, and in turn made it trivial to have everyone across any platform specify exact colors more easily without any end user customization or arguments about "not quite what I wanted" in an 8-bit palette or whatever. Thus a lot of the ecosystem now makes use of it. Being able to replicate anything yourself, or get close enough, in a smaller colorspace is still extra grunt work for no particularly valuable reason, and could actually add up to be fairly significant work if one has a lot of more complex code coloring themes and such.
That could have been acceptable. The problem is it's empty; it should instead contain the default configuration.
The level to which Crypto has complicated my taxes in previous years has largely sucked the fun out of the concept. I just sit on my existing hoard like some sort of digital dragon.

A younger, more idealistic me thought some day it would replace cash, but having to track the value of every buy and sell is just too punitive for that purpose.
Implied in this: That learning about other people will make you like them more and not lead to increased wishes for isolation.
I did some language courses, so now I just want to improve my vocabulary. I used anki for a while but once I got out of it I found it hard to get in again. That's why I like those emails, they don't take much time and you can start every day again. Otherwise I just try to immerse myself in the language with youtube, netflix ... :)
Web3 is more than that because some people genuinely thought the future was running actual code on the blockchain and using that as part of the backend. Of course that works reasonably well as long as your code is terse, straightforward, trustworthy, easy to read, bug-free and you have no performance requirements for execution speed or deployment speed.
> But I still would have required an interim solution for everyone building from source until these patched/fixed versions of SDL started shipping in distros.

$ rpm -q SDL2
SDL2-2.30.9-1.fc40.x86_64
SDL2-2.30.9-1.fc40.i686

:-/
https://archive.ph/jCXxR
The words are generated by ChatGpt Api, and I store them in DynamoDB.
The path between A and B has enough tangled branches that I'm reminded of childhood maze puzzles where you have to find which entrance even gets to the right goal and not the bad outcomes.

The most positive take is: they want to build a general-purpose AI, to allow fully automated luxury for all; to built with care to ensure it can only be used for positive human flourishing and cannot (easily or at all) be used for nefarious purposes by someone who wants to sow chaos or take over the world; and to do so in public so that the rest of us can prepare for it rather than wake up one day to a world that is alien to us.

Given the mental image I have here is of a maze, you may well guess that I don't expect this to go smoothly — I think the origin in Silicon Valley and startup culture means OpenAI, quite naturally, has a bias towards optimism and to the idea that economic growth and tech is a good thing by default. I think all of this is only really tempered by the memetic popularity of Eliezer Yudkowsky, and the extent to which his fears are taken seriously, and his fears are focussed more on existential threat of an optimising agent that does the optimising faster than we do, not on any of the transitional dynamics going from the current economy to whatever a "humans need not apply" economy looks like.
What happens to all those fake equity profit participation units that Open AI used to hand out?
Show HN: Embed ViteJS-compiled assets in your Rust binary
Dear HN community --

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, and all the best in the upcoming new year :)

Just wanted to share a crate I've been working on that I finally felt was ready to publish. It's primary purpose is to make it easy to integrate ViteJS with your Rust project. It tries to be a low-touch integration so you can continue using ViteJS as you normally would.

The next step for this is to show the community how you could integrate this into templating engines and web frameworks like `actix-web`/`axum`/`poem`/etc. I've previously drafted a ViteJS integration for Rust backends[1] in `create-react-app` and I hope to adapt that to use `vite-rs` soon.

[1] https://github.com/Wulf/create-rust-app/blob/main/create-rus...
> We view this mission as the most important challenge of our time.

Who buys this stuff?
> You said that for pixel art "the copyrightable part is the pixel art sprite," but then couldn't I say the copyrightable part of an AI-generated image is the generated image? Again, both of these creations were made via UI interactions!

No, because AI-generated images are machine output which isn't considered copyrightable. This isn't unique to AI-generated images, or even AI-generated output, but anything machine generated. That you did something to cause the machine to generate that output doesn't really mean anything since after all machines do not generate outputs by themselves, they need some human input - even if that input is to press a "Start doing things" button.

(if anything this isn't even unique to machine generated stuff, not all things are copyrightable - for example in many countries bitmap fonts are not copyrightable)

> If UI interactions aren't copyrightable, then practically no digital art is copyrightable, because all of it can be recreated by a series of UI interactions. I'm not understanding how a digital drawing and an AI drawing are different under your framework.

It isn't my framework, it is how things happen right now (if it was up to me, copyrights would be even more lax than they are right now - e.g. i see things like youtubers having to fear DMCA claims and twitch.tv streams getting muted as something that should never happen).

Digital art is copyrightable because it is the direct result of human work, AI-generated art is not because a machine made it - even if it was on a human's "request". You can use the AI-generated art as part of human work (f.e. draw some mustache on a generated face :-P) and that would be copyrightable.

Think of AI generated content (not just art, what i write applies to anything generated) like the result of `for (int i=0; i < pixel_count; i++) pixels[i] = random();` - claiming that the result of that is copyrightable makes no sense - and the laws, at least so far, seem to agree with this.

In addition if you compile a C program that is just the line above (plus a bit of scaffolding to interface with the OS) you could probably claim copyright on the program itself (if you wrote it) but you couldn't claim copyright on the actions of opening a terminal, running the C compiler and then running the program.

If you add some extra parameters to the program to control the randomness spread per RGB channel and X,Y coordinates, like -say- `the_program -rrnd 32..64 -grnd 100..200 -brnd 0..64 -yrrnd 0..100 -ygrnd 100..200` or something like that you wouldn't claim copyright to the parameters `-rrnd 32..64 -grnd 100..200 -brnd 0..64 -yrrnd 0..100 -ygrnd 100..200` pretty much like you wouldn't claim copyright to parameters like `-ffast-math -O3 -march=native` etc to GCC or Clang -- and yet those are the equivalent to a "prompt".
Different types of missiles exist. A cruise missile (for which the Russians have a much better name - winged missile) can be confused with an airplane, as it is essentially a drone with a turbojet engine. A ballistic missile travelling at supersonic/hypersonic speeds is much easier to discriminate based on velocity alone. Also, those are usually tracked all the way from a launch site using infrared cameras on satellites. The European incursions were mostly cruise missiles and the Iranian mopeds (and at least one ballistic incident that was likely a Ukrainian air defense S-300 missile that the Ukrainians lost control of; this is another problem that happens every now and then to everyone).
Nothing to do with the GPL, just FOSS in general.
> Is there any interesting textbook on electronic warfare, I wonder?

I know that there are unclassified textbooks on this very topic, but I've long forgotten their names.

> If you think about it, it sounds like a pain of a problem, the plane must be as stealthy as possible, but somehow, during those moments, communicate in a non-spoofable way that it's a friendly. No idea how they do this.

Well, part of this problem is pretty trivial to solve: if you're coming back from a mission and are well in friendly airspace, you don't need to be stealthy at all, so you turn on your radio transmitters.

It's my understanding that when you're on a mission where you need to be as hard to spot as possible, you turn off all unnecessary transmitters and rely on Command telling Air Traffic Control and other interested parties where you're operating so as to reduce the chance that you collide with another aircraft and/or get shot down by friendlies.
Integration Tests with GitHub Service Containers
https://archive.is/ZDSVY
My read is:

“We’re going public because we want more money. We need more money for more computer time but that’s not all. ChatGPT has been so influential that we deserve a bigger share of the rewards than we have gotten.”
Well The Information reports that AGi really just means 100B profit for Microsoft and friends. So…
The whole thing is a paper thin farce.

Strong principled stance until the valuations got big (helped in no small measure by the principled stance)…and then backtracked it when everyone saw the riches there for the taking with a little let’s call it reframing
No, I think you're right.

I'm quite sure the "deadly force" wording was for effect, more than any kind of actual change in posture or practice. Unless I'm mistaken there are still plenty of drones being seen in NJ and they're not blasting them out of the sky. And they've always had the option of lethal force around bases anyway.

what they assess as—the immediate threat of the drones

None of us know for sure but I think the immediate threat of the drones is negligible. If US bases are leaking signals that can be intercepted by drones overhead then these same signals could be just as easily intercepted by cars driving past the bases or nearby homes. And as far as the visible spectrum is concerned all the major players have satellites overhead anyway.

And as you say, the risks of shooting drones down are high. Damage to nearby property. Accidental shootdowns of innocent craft. Successful shootdowns would reveal our capabilities. Unsuccessful shootdowns would reveal our inability to deal with the threat. And in aggregate this would all give the enemy lots of intel as to where we do and don't have defenses. And open war (!!!) over our skies is, to put it mildly, kind of a big deal. There are, to put it mildly, global economic consequences.

Of course, that's all if these drones are of hostile origin, which I think is still a very open question.

If these drones are "ours," which would be weird but also plausible, then the "deadly force" note in the FAA notice could just be part of the cover story.
It's not even remotely plausible.

Sam Altman is one of the most well connected people in Silicon Valley.

And investors like Reid Hoffman aren't having their lives being dictated by Musk.
Unmanned kamikazes?
China Launches Largest Amphibious Warship in Show of Naval Power
I don't think Nix or Guix are particularly "3l1t3". They are less mainstream, but they have users of varying technical backgrounds.
> ... it will just make weapon makers start designing high-speed missiles with the radar signature of an airliner lol.

Well, the problem with that is that airliners are (relatively speaking) slow as fuck. A "high-speed missile" with the radar cross section of an airliner would be mind-meltingly obvious as a threat even to automated defense robots.
I wouldn't argue that it's rather complex for what it does. The reason I still did it this way was that I want to get them automated, without doing anything manually. Even if I would need to just open my laptop, or run a script once, I think I would just stop at one point, and I don't think it would ever become a habit. Are there other tools that could probably get this project done with less complexity? Probably, but I have the pride of an engineer and wanted to brush up on my Terraform ;)
Does Listening to a Book Count as Reading It?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airliner_shootdown_inc...
doesn't work for me. i'm using i3.

olps, it's macOS only feature.
I hear you, no offense taken. I actually worked with one of the people who contributed to the creation of template metaprograming once upon a time. Its definitely not for everyone, definitely abstract at first. I tended to avoid it unless I was working on libraries.

I also agree the social factor is amongst one of the most important things in software engineering, possibly more important than code itself. Most problems are social problems without technical solutions... Anyways, I hear you, but after a bit of toiling with it, it gets way easier.

Its a steep cliff type learning experience for most people especially people who have spent a lot of time in different paradigms. My perspective is, once you get someone up the cliff it's got a really nice view. That view improves objective communication about software and program flow and reduces some fears about pointers/references in review. It's a trade off, but I think the trade off is one where you get more out then you put in. Definitely an opinion though.
Yes, I'm aware of this page and it does not work. I tested using my iPhone hotspot as the internet source and it did not show evidence of CGNAT. Only green dots on the port squares.
This is Apple's fault for normalizing the removal of the headphone jack, causing the price of headphones to triple and making existing headphones obsolete. This is unregulated business at its best!
Oh, one more thing! I'd like to share an excerpt from the README to make sure folks considering this approach understand all the cons that I could think of:

```

As with all things in life, there are considerations to take into account before using vite-rs:

It's one more thing to debug when things go wrong.

It'll increase compile time. See the note on compile times for large assets.

For those deploying to embedded devices: it'll increase your binary size.

Shipping frontend with your backend can slow you down as you'll have to wait for your Rust backend to compile everytime you want to release a new build. Similarly, failing CI/CD pipelines pertaining to the backend will also stop your frontend frontend from deploying.

It may be faster or cheaper to deploy your frontend on CDNs instead of serving it.

```
Thanks for the feedback!

Ideally, even people not familiar with birds should get better after doing it for a while :D

Let me know what your dad thinks of it!
Makes better sense to me now. They should’ve said this a long time ago.
Unfiltered first hand accounts on social media. What a joke.

We're fucked, aren't we? We take whatever post on social media fits our preconceptions and we run with it. No verifying who it is or how plausible it is. No cross-checking with other sources of information. Everybody, particularly all "mainstream media", is lying except this random person on the internet with no proof or verification.

Meanwhile, first thing I did when I saw images of the damaged surfaces was check other sources to verify that the damage shown was of the right aircraft and event, check what AA missile damage typically looks like from Russian missiles, check what kinds of missiles Russian systems use, and do a broad quick survey of all the available information at hand, then come to my own opinion and wait for an official investigation while remaining open to new and better information.

Why do these people do the first step of being skeptical, which is largely correct, but then they believe random bullshit elsewhere without any of that skepticism? I just don't get it.
Open AI has build tools internally that scale not quite infinitely but close enough and they seem to have reached above human performance on all tasks - at the cost of being more expensive than hiring a few thousand humans to do it.

I did work around this last year and there was no limit to how smart you could get a swarm of agents using different base models at the bottom end. This at the time was a completely open question. It's still the case that no one has build an interactive system that _really_ scales - even the startups and off the record conversations I've had with people in these companies say that they are still using python across a single data center.

AGI is now no longer a dream but a question of if we want to:

1). Start building nuclear power plants like it's 1950 and keep going like it's Fallout.

2). Wait and hope that Moore's law keeps applying to GPUs until the cost of something like o3 drops to something affordable, in both dollar terms and watts.
They referring to the reconstructed board that solely exists to rubber stamp every Altman decision as officially great for humanity, so what do they care what the board's considerations are? They'll go along with literally anything.
Mr. Altman is without a doubt well connected and a good guy.

However, Mr. Musk is continually called out by OpenAI in the public and OpenAI has quite the megaphone.
Thanks! Yeah, I wanted to recreate the birdwatching experience and felt that the call was a crucial element to make this a truly multimedia experience and not just another word guessing game.
not really - the use case mentioned where you suffer from a slow terminal is a code smell as far as i am concerned
In 2001 we also had Siberian Airlines flight 1812 from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was shot down by Ukrainian S-200 during a joint Russian/Ukrainian exercise!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia_Airlines_Flight_1812
The more I look the more I think it's ever so more out of reach and if there's a chance at it, OpenAI doesn't seem to be the one that will deliver it.

To extrapolate, (of LLMs and GenAI) the more I see use of and how it's used the more it shows severe upwards limits, even though the introduction of those tools has been phenomenal.

On business side, OpenAI lost key personnel and seemingly the plot as well.

I think we've all been drinking a bit too much on the hype of it all. It'll al;l settle down into wonderful set of (new) tools, but not on AGI. Few more (AI) winters down the road, maybe..
Stay at my house for a day. Wife and both daughters all have multiple sets of headphones and I get to listen to Spotify playlists and Instagram/TikTok video chipmunk noises from tinny little phone speakers all day.
Iran mistook PS752 for a cruise missile [0]. It's not an impossible mistake; a cruise missile is (often) a subsonic, jet-powered object.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_International_Airlines...
Quoting a former Navy sailor in that article:

>“This is the most sustained combat that the U.S. Navy has seen since World War II — easily, no question,” said Bryan Clark, a former Navy submariner and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. “We’re sort of on the verge of the Houthis being able to mount the kinds of attacks that the U.S. can’t stop every time, and then we will start to see substantial damage. … If you let it fester, the Houthis are going to get to be a much more capable, competent, experienced force.”

The UK and the Royal Navy are also less than impressed[1].

Once upon a time a US Navy Carrier Strike Group was touted as more destructive than an average country's entire air force, but the reality is the US Navy today is stretched thin fighting an enemy that's so overwhelming them that they make WW2 comparisons and underperform to the point of abject failure known as friendly fire.

[1]: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/24/red-sea-houthis-...
This is Satire but a proposal worth of consideration...

https://www.britannica.com/place/Denmark/Health-and-welfare
The system is broken and I can't see a way to fix it. Maybe pay to send a takedown notice?
I remember reading a joke once...

What's the hardest European language to learn?

Dutch.

Why?

Because every time you speak to them in Dutch they respond to you in English.

It seems this is a way around that :-D

(I don't actually think it's the hardest language but have found that yes, many Dutch speak English very well)
Only if you care about about causation instead of just correlation.
This is repeated often, but recently i found out that men lead all categories (except sexual assault and domestic violence) of being the victims of crime. You are safer if you are a woman.
Uniquely preserved gut contents illuminate trilobite palaeophysiology
When you see me at social gatherings you would either label me as an introvert or an extrovert. It totally depends on the people i am around. Not like whether i know the people or not (i will happily socialize with strangers on the right topic), but rather what type of people and what the current topic is.
I deeply dislike small talk, or people i know (or at least i think) don’t share any common interests with me.
That’s why i am quite the talkative person at work but mostly quiet (and uninterested) in private.
Perhaps science and technology should stay out of the only remaining area of untouched human nature.
Study for and Pass the CKA exam

Ansible

Improve my programming, either via CS50 or the new edition of Think Python

Put my synth collection to use
And before that they bombed a few in Syria. It's ridiculous to try an whatabout Russias war crimes, they're known for leveling cities Grozny style.
We create open-source software and attempt to get government agencies to adopt/use it. It's crazy how alergic these agencies are to open-source. Some will even create their own, with legacy style implementations (csv uploads, broken parsers), complete with bugs/flaws that are predicatble rather than use someone elses code.

When responding to RFPs, the open-source stuff has an a higher level of scrutinty than the closed systems. Like, if it's open then you have to show it's good but if it's closed the vendor just says "yep, we are perfect" and the agency could move on. It feels like the agency, and the employees don't want any responsibility. But I've never seen anyone lose their government job from some incompetence.
It calculates
Thank you for countering the misinformation.

It is disgraceful that the proliferation of such lies is not forbidden on this forum.
Can’t wait until there is a lucid dreaming pill I can take, personally
Could there be a way to instead of having the direct english translation, having it define the word in (simple) Dutch? I think this immersion would help improve understanding the language directly as opposed to route memorization, especially at the more advanced level you are targeting.
Yeah, it's really clear it's an engineer, what the software does is never even mentioned, the purposes and tasks that it performs: what are they? And how is hallucination managed? This reads to me like a complexity soup, where they just started without a clear idea of purpose or goal. Perhaps if the article mentioned what the software does, the purpose, it might be more clear. It sounds like a replacement for the entire management layer of a company...
PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels [pdf]